MISSION NAME
US-A 17 17
Status
Success
DATE
5 MAR 1981
LAUNCH PROVIDER
Soviet Space Program
Launch Pad
90
Description
Active radar satellite for ocean surveillance powered by a nuclear reactor.
Tsiklon-2
Rocket Description
The Tsyklon-2 (cyclone-2), also known as Tsiklon-2 and Tsyklon-M, GRAU index 11K69, was a Ukrainian, previously Soviet orbital carrier rocket used from the 1960s to the late 2000s.